Director

With 20+ years’ highly commercial experience driving growth and turnaround, Domenico partners with CEOs and MDs to deliver on challenging mandates in competitive, tight-margin industries.

Domenico’s passion is to build. As such, his career has been characterised by ground-up environments, defining new financial processes, systems and frameworks that ensure financial health while enabling confident commercial and strategic decision making. Crucially, his experience extends beyond the traditional realm of finance. Drawing on exposure spanning commercial, sales, product development, logistics and the supply chain, he understands the interconnections, interdependencies and levers of growth and profit. he develops SOPs/KPIs that not only uplift performance, but create transparency, improve governance and mitigate risk. Elevated by a proven track record establishing accountable cultures with a commitment to problem solving, He establishs finance as a critical business partner and enabler.

Some of the entities in which he has been fortunate enough to grow with and contribute to.

Zurn Inc, Rexnord Inc, GEA Farm Technologies GMBH, Visy Industries, Australian Unity, Tic Group, Jones Lang Lasale.

KEY ASSETS

Commercial finance leader and executive operating as a right-hand to CEOs of small/medium businesses, advising and leading strategy development, budgeting and forecasting for growth.

Experience leading corporate services, incl. operations, product, sales, commercial, HR, supply chain, sourcing & procurement, driving improvements with both top and bottom line impact.

MIPA, leads end-to-end financial management, including financial, management & statutory accounting, FP&A/commercial analysis, cashflow, compliance, tax, reporting, audit.

Track record building financial capacity, capability and frameworks from ground-up, building business partners and performance enablers, supporting stakeholders across functions;

Seasoned in guiding product development and launch, working with executive, product and marketing leaders to verify strategy, maximise margin and enable growth objectives;

Statutory experience as an International FC, Company Director and Company Secretary.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Increased employee engagement in the finance team subsequently improving retention rates through improved lines of communication, clear accountabilities and team ownership of performance;

Engaged to build the capacity and capability of finance function in Australia, expanding to ME, UAE, Latin & South America, ensuring financial success and integrity of the Group;

Progressed to proxy country GM role, providing leadership across operations, sales and finance in the wind-up of the Australian subsidiary, driving deliverables and providing status updates;

Serve as executive business partner to International MD and leaders across regions, providing key business insights to guide ground-up annual/multi-year business planning and forecasting;

Manage a corporate services remit, holding accountability for finance, sales, commercial, HR, sourcing, procurement and warehousing, driving top line growth and operational profitability;

Lead end to end financial management, incl. financial, management and statutory accounting, working capital, budgeting and forecasting, credit, tax, audit, board/management reporting;

Provide leadership to 8 direct reports and 20 indirect reports ranging from sales & marketing to finance, operations and customer service, driving resource productivity and performance;

Manage positive engagements and outcomes with external stakeholders, incl. shareholders, banks, the ASIC, tax office, external audit, insurance providers, customers and suppliers;

Appointed Company Director by US Board of Parent Company Zurn Inc in 2015.

Established a finance business partnering capability from the ground up, developing critical SOPs, internal processes, staff training, performance standards and improved compliance;

Improved audit accuracy from 15% to 74%, preventing negative impact on balance sheet and profitability, rectifying errors in inventory data and system flaws relating to OPEX/financials;

Mitigated financial risk and improved fraud prevention, strengthening controls by monitoring consignment delivery, assessing stock damages and ensuring complete documentation;

Chris brings to Astute a broad and diverse set of skills and experience in private and global corporate business spanning over 35 years. From a Business owner to Global Corporate business as a senior manager.

Chris’s passion is to create efficiency, accuracy, and best practices within a business where all employees will want to come to work each day and feel as if they are achieving their best. They can feel proud to be a part of something. Innovation, or the desire to come up with solutions to improve business is a real passion that started from a very early age. We exist to satisfy our customers and therefore be the customer’s choice. Always looking at a business from the perspective of where we can improve. With a strong belief in good values and integrity. You need to look at everything you do as if you are part of fabric, and it is part of you. So, in a sense when you walk into a business, employed or not, you are part of the business, one way or another. Chris’s focus has been on development, change, improvement, creation, and optimisation. Always caring for a business as if his own, always caring for the individuals in the business to create success. Honesty and integrity being key.

2 entities Chris owes a deal of gratitude for growth and training are:

• 27 Years GEA Australia (Subsidiary of GEA GMBH): Director of supply Chain, Operations Manager, Project Manager.

• 6 years AV Jennings Homes: Building Supervisor.

KEY ASSETS:

• Specialised in, corporate entity consolidation, new building office and warehousing, from inception to completion with change management for +150 personnel.

• Extensive SAP, Quote tool BOM configuration specialist.

• 35 Years Procurement experience grass roots to operations management.

• National Supply Chain Management 27 years.

• ERP data analysis and report writing.

• Experienced in SAP and specialised configuration creation and management, Microsoft Dynamics (Navision), AccountRight (MYOB), and Axapta.

AHIEVEMENTS:

• Running multimillion dollar warehousing exceeding 30,000 line items with negligible stock loss over successive years.

• Successful Consolidation 7 business sites to a single purpose-built location, with complete project management.

• Complete retail and quote project pricing management, Vendor and customer management, Materials Management with MRP, stock control.

• Freight Company Consolidation, Air Sea, Express.

• All indirect spend such as Fleet vehicle, Asset management, facility,

• communications, IT. All requirements for the functioning of businesses.